Objectives: To investigate why we have day and night, why the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, to determine whether the Earth of the Sun is moving, to determine whether the moon is also moving, and to discuss how the Earth moves.
Materials: Handouts and Astronomy text
Opening: The students will fill out a handout where they fill in their predictions about each question presented and then determine in their observations whether their predictions were correct and if they were not describing why.
Engagement: As a class we will review important vocabulary and fill out a handout on how the Earth moves. The words axis, astronomy, rotation, revolution, and orbit will be key in this lesson.
Closure: Reviewing of the handouts and class discussion on predictions and observations.
Objectives: To investigate why we have day and night, why the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, to determine whether the Earth of the Sun is moving, to determine whether the moon is also moving, and to discuss how the Earth moves.
Materials: Handouts and Astronomy text
Opening: The students will fill out a handout where they fill in their predictions about each question presented and then determine in their observations whether their predictions were correct and if they were not describing why.
Engagement: As a class we will review important vocabulary and fill out a handout on how the Earth moves. The words axis, astronomy, rotation, revolution, and orbit will be key in this lesson.
Closure: Reviewing of the handouts and class discussion on predictions and observations.